The spotlights are back on at PalaEvangelisti!
After 4 consecutive trips between the Championship and the Champions League, the Block Devils return to play within friendly walls, in front of their own fans, on the last day of the first round of the regular season. Piacenza arrives in Perugia, led by former Juventus coach Andrea Anastasi and Sir Susa Vim Perugia arrives at this event already certain of the top of the table in this halfway point of the championship, strong with ten victories out of ten games played.
A record which allows president Gino Sirci’s boys, still unbeaten since the start of the season, to access the Italian Cup quarter-finals as first seed. Maintaining the continuity of results will also be the objective this time: for this reason it promises to be a very tight match with Anastasi’s men who, to maintain the field factor in the Cup quarter-finals, are forced to win by at least 2 points because with a defeat in the tie-breaks would be mathematically linked and overtaken in terms of set quotient by Verona, who in yesterday’s advance match had already overtaken Piacenza in the standings by one point, beating at home with a clear 3-0 Gioiella Prisma Taranto.
The game is played at 3.30pm live on Rai 2.
THE PRECEDENTS
There are 13 precedents between the two teams: 11 matches won by Perugia and only two by Piacenza. The last direct match dates back to the beginning of this season: the Super Cup semi-final held at the PalaWanni in Florence and won by the Block Devils 3-1.
